ClamAV
Clam AntiVirus is an open source (GPL) anti-virus toolkit for UNIX, designed especially for e-mail scanning on mail gateways. It provides a number of utilities including a flexible and scalable multi-threaded daemon, a command line scanner and advanced tool for automatic...
Cost / License
- Free
- Open Source
Application types
Platforms
- Mac
- Windows
- Linux
- BSD
Features
Properties
- Lightweight
- Privacy focused
Features
- Ad-free
- No Tracking
- Graphical User Interface
- Block Trackers
- Dark Mode
- Works Offline
- Malware Analysis
Tags
- email-scanning
ClamAV News & Activities
Recent News
- Maoholguin published news article about ClamAV
ClamAV 1.5 adds external CVD signing, FIPS mode, and new detection featuresClamAV 1.5.0 introduces major security and compliance improvements centered on FIPS (Federal Inform...
- Fla published news article about ClamAV
ClamAV 1.4 designated as next long-term stable releaseClamAV 1.4 has been designated as the latest Long-Term Stable release after delays in the release o...
- POX published news article about ClamAV
ClamAV 1.4 ends 32-bit Linux support, adds ARM64 for Windows, and enhances archive supportClamAV, the widely-used open-source antivirus, has launched version 1.4. This update discontinues L...
Recent activities
ALTERRA added ClamAV as alternative to Emsisoft Emergency Kit
TheEmperorArt added ClamAV as alternative to MalwareTerminator
UniqueGo added ClamAV as alternative to Gridinsoft Anti-Malware- POX updated ClamAV
- crse updated ClamAV
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What is ClamAV?
Clam AntiVirus is an open source (GPL) anti-virus toolkit for UNIX, designed especially for e-mail scanning on mail gateways. It provides a number of utilities including a flexible and scalable multi-threaded daemon, a command line scanner and advanced tool for automatic database updates. The core of the package is an anti-virus engine available in a form of shared library.
ClamAVis also available for Windows as the result of a partnership between Immunet Corporation (http://www.immunet.com) and Sourcefire, Inc. (http://www.sourcefire.com). It is designed to provide the ClamAV community with a free Windows-specific Anti-Virus (AV) solution using an advanced Cloud-based protection mechanism. Smallest of all AV-applications: only 3.45MB download-file (32bit). You can use ClamAV For Windows as a stand-alone, host-based AV solution, or in conjunction with your pre-installed AV solution to provide enhanced detection for the latest malware threats.
ClamAV information
Developed by
Cisco Licensing
Open Source (GPL-2.0) and Free product.Written in
Rating
Average rating of 3.4Alternatives
98 alternatives listedNews
5 news article related to ClamAVSupported Languages
- English
AlternativeTo Category
Security & PrivacyGitHub repository
- 6,006 Stars
- 821 Forks
- 317 Open Issues
- Updated
Comments and Reviews
my personal favorite, lightweight, fast, 100% free and open source
Just installed it, first thing it did was kill and then remove my IRC software, without asking me. I am not amused. Default settings should be ASK FIRST.
Programs that Do Not Play Nice get removed. Very Quickly.
Has been in an early alpha version for decades and recognizes nothing.
Cisco, owner of clamav, blocked Russian region from receiving antivirus database, making it completely useless in Russia. Not very freedom of Cisco. But overall, great malware detection tool.
ClamAV only makes sense for Linux and is not used to protect Linux users but Windows users, in case several people using both Windows and Linux are working in a network, you don't need Antivirus on Linux, but if you need to send an .exe file to a colleague on Windows, ClamAV allows you to check it and avoid sending an infected file to your colleague.
Garbage. After installing from official repo: "WARNING: Clamd was NOT notified: Can't connect to clamd through /run/clamav/clamd.ctl: No such file or directory"
Probably very late but you have to update database first :) by using "freshclam" as root.
At least if you are a Mac user you have to edit a hidden file but after almost two hours of looking I couldn't find what to edit it to. Not real helpful changing preferences if you don't know what to change it to so I guess I'll never bother looking into this antivirus app again.